Chapter 6: Kidnapped

Ali found she had some time and decided to eat the sweets with Elliot. Ali has some carrot cake and giggles. "What?" Elliot looks at her confused.
"I just remembered when I was a little girl I use to play with this little brown hare in my yard. Me being young at first I thought he was a baby bunny, but he wouldn't take plain carrots. Then one day I was eating carrot cake outside and I dropped a piece off my fork. The hare came right over and ate it." She giggles again. "He wouldn't leave my side till I went indoors." Elliot smiles.
"You have a kind heart Ali." She blushes and takes a bite of carrot cake.
"What makes you say that?"
"Well you're so kind to everyone even though you just got here, and even in the story your heart is sweet." Ali smiles.
"Thank you Elliot. I should come over and make my carrot cake for you sometime. This one doesn't have enough spices and it tastes flat."
"What no way!" He takes a bite. "It tastes normal to me."
"I'll make mine and we'll see how it compares." She says jokingly but at the same time serious.
"You're on!"

They finish up and Elliot packs up and waves goodbye. Ali waves and sits there for a moment. She hears screams behind her. She turns around and see's a man in an olive green cloak covered in blood, and a white and odd mask that covers his eyes. He walks towards Ali. She's too scared to scream or to run. Elliot runs back through the crowd looking for Ali. He sees the man approach Ali and slide his hand on her cheek. "Ali! Run!" The man sees Elliot. He swoops up Ali and takes off. "Damn!" He runs back to the mansion.

The man who has Ali reeks of death. He runs through the forest then he stops and sets her down. "Where are you taking me?" She says calmly but with obvious fear in her voice.
"I don't know. I got lost." He starts setting up a tent. He grabs Ali and throws her inside the tent. He zips it up and takes the mask and cloak off.
"Ace!" He looks back at her and smiles warmly.
"Nice to see you too Alice." There is hatred in his words but the warmth in his smile kept her calm.
"Ace, listen to me. I'm not Alice. I'm Ali Heart." He acts like he didn't hear her.
"You left me here all alone Alice."
"Ace listen!" She yells. He pays attention to her at last. "Alice Liddell is my grandmother! She died 3 years ago! I'm Ali Heart! Her granddaughter! Ace please understand that I'm not her. I'd never hurt any of you."
"Alice is... dead?"
"She died of old age. Look at me. Look closer at me and you will see that I'm not Alice." He gets closer to her face and sighs.
"Y-You're right... You're not Alice." He sits on the ground and holds the hilt of his sword. "I abandoned my role to get revenge... but maybe I will get it after all." He draws his sword and grabs Ali by her hair.
"Ace what are you doing?!" She screeches. "Stop!" He lifts his sword high above his head; it comes down with a mighty swish.

Elliot, Blood, and the twins rush through the forest. "He took her this way I'm sure!" They all look panicked and scared. They hear Ali's screeches.
"Ace what are you doing?! Stop!" They rush into his tent and see a pile of hair on the floor. Blood picks Ace up by his throat.
"What did you do to her?" He says in a low, hateful grumble.
"Nothing. See for yourself." Blood throws him aside. The twins grow older and grab him. Ali stands and looks at Blood. Her hair is cut up to her shoulders. She looks like an entirely different person. "Presenting, Ali Heart. She will not be mistaken for Alice henceforth. I freed her from her curse." He says proudly. Elliot puts his gun to Ace's head.
"You bastard!"
"Elliot it's ok." She says. Elliot looks confused. "In a way he helped me. I was always being mistaken for her. Now I have my own identity." She walks over to Ace and looks at him in the eye. "Promise me Ace. You won't kill anymore, and you'll go back to being the knight of hearts."
"Ali I-"
"Promise me!" He sighs.
"I promise."